The Mother of all Hip-Hop Look-Back and Preview Round-Ups (with Top 20 discs and Top 50 singles of 2009)

Hip-hop minded Phoenix readers this past week might have noticed that we got shafted in the year-end issue. While every other genre was allotted space, rap music was nowhere to be found among the other round-ups.

It’s all good though, as I’ve done more wrap-up shit this month than ever before. Between THIS PLAY LIST, THIS LOOK at the year in Boston hip-hop, and THIS TIRADE about how Jay-Z can either sink or save boom bap, there’s plenty to digest.

In addition to those features, I’ve also listed my Top 20 Hip-Hop Discs and Top 50 Hip-Hop Singles of 2009 (see below). And for a peek at what’s dropping in 2010, you might want to sniff THIS PREVIEW that’s running in tomorrow’s paper.

Finally; for an on-point list of the Best Rap Discs of the Decade, check THIS POST on HipHopDX. I’m sure mine would have been a smidgen different - it is, after all, a whole decade - but those dudes are on point as usual.